Many people think that talk of American "internment camps" is just
paranoid conspiracy mongering, but such camps have played a significant role in
government activity for more than 200 years.

Internment and Resettlement Operations, U.S. Dept. of the Army, FM 3-39.40, February, 2010 — The manual outlines policies for processing detainees into internment camps both globally and inside the United States.

Indian
Final Solution — This is about the forcible eviction of the Cherokee
from their Eastern homelands to internment camps, later to be called
"reservations", in the Western states. Similar stories can be told about most
native American tribes.

Uprising of '34 — In 1934 there was a strike of U.S.
textile workers. The response of the U.S. government was to call out the
National Guard to round them up and put them in internment camps. This is the
transcript of the POV program on PBS on this episode in U.S. history. See
Press Clippings and
Transcript and a
commentary.